how is this compared to either zombieland or the walking dead form amc?

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The novel takes a great approach - every chapter is a different person recounting their role in the zombie wars. There's a huge range of types, experiences, geographic areas, and no doubt the movie will have to focus on four or five at most. The characters don't know each other and their stories don't really intersect. It just creates a huge mosaic of a global event.

World War Z is written in a multiple points of view, documentary interview style and covers the entire war period, from case zero through the aftermath. The interviewees are from different walks of life and all around the world.

It is, quite frankly, the best zombie novel I have read and probably my favorite fiction title. While a good two hour adaption could possibly be made, it will necessarily have to abridge roughly 85% of the material, if it uses any of it at all. (I fully expect "inspired by".)

The zombie survival guide is much less interesting though. Some versions have a historical section at the end that is pretty good. However the primary section reads exactly like a real survival guide, and is about as entertaining. What it is good for is setting the rules for Brook's zombies. It might also make for an interesting case study if you like to analyze writing techniques (specifically, how he adapted zombies into a fairly lengthy and legitimate sounding guide).

I'm definitely looking forward to this movie, though I'll be interested to see how well the movie adapts the book. I have read that they've decided to center the movie around the person doing all of the recording as a way of centering the movie on at least one character we can view the events from, which makes sense to me.

The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. [Mireille] Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; [Daniella] Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.